ambulanced

Siren-driven to hospital

Ambulanced is the past tense of ambulance used as a verb, meaning transported by ambulance: She was ambulanced to the hospital after the accident.

The usage is informal and relatively uncommon, since most speakers prefer taken by ambulance or rushed to the hospital.

transport

rushed

Done with excessive speed

paramedics · hospital · gurney · speeding · lights · trauma · dispatched · loaded · strapped · unconscious

narrative

carried

Moved while holding

taken · evacuated · ferried · conveyed · loaded · stretchered · lifted · transferred · hurried · sped

urgency

critical

Expressing disapproval or importance

speeding · code · stat · trauma · unconscious · bleeding · cardiac · stroke · crash · resuscitation

Opposites
mode of medical transport

ambulancedwalked in

Passed through an entrance

cabbed · taxied · airlifted · helicoptered · medevaced

urgency and agency

ambulancedwalked in

Passed through an entrance

scheduled · showed up

direction of medical transport

ambulanceddischarged

Officially let go

released · sent home · walked out

Phrases
Family

ambulance, ambulances, ambulancing

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG